A Losing Combination

/ Jeff Cann

Under the knife… again, tomorrow, the culmination of a year-long wait. “Let’s see if it improves,” they said, but it never did. “It’s just a mild case of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome,” the neurologist dismissed me by turning his back, making this comment already halfway out the door. An affliction of real estate underwriters and insurance adjusters and, apparently, library accountants, so effete the TV show Psych once gave it to Burton Guster to illustrate that he’s a weenie.

I say “No, a pinched nerve, remember that manly mountain bike crash last year, the one where I dislocated my shoulder?” I’m certain they’re operating on the wrong thing—it’s a combination of wanting it fixed and wanting to say I told you so when it isn’t.

Written for the GirlieOnTheEdge’s Six Sentence Story Link Up!

Photo by Cottonbro Studio

22 thoughts on “A Losing Combination”

    • I’m sure they know what they’re doing. I just want it to be something tougher than carpal tunnel. But man, it started a week after that crash, right in line with what’s expected with a brachial plexus injury. I’d be completely unsurprised if I wake up from surgery and they say oops, we got it wrong.

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  2. I’m sure they know what they’re doing. I just want it to be something tougher than carpal tunnel. But man, it started a week after that crash, right in line with what’s expected with a brachial plexus injury. I’d be completely unsurprised if I wake up from surgery and they say oops, we got it wrong.

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  3. OMG. Like a Stephen King nightmare. It must be bad if you’re succumbing. I have so many replacement parts and each one of them I held off surgery as long as I could. I kept waiting for something better to come along. You too? Jeez Jeff, wasn’t it hard to hold on to your handlebar? Tell us about it as soon as you can pluck it out.

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  4. can you believe i counted your sentences to make certain you only had six? 🙂 anyway, smiling huge cause you did the link-up! though, concerned for you! best of luck with your shoulder surgery tomorrow. if i was closer, i’d bring you a popsicle and a daisy.

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  6. Excellent (and seat-squirming) Six, Jeff!
    Surely we all identify.

    Ah! the ‘Voice from Mount Hippocratic!’*

    (On a personal note: once had a ruptured appendix; I was busy offering my second home and all my cash for another hit of demerol and someone waved a clipboard and said, “But we need your signature. Informed consent is necessary.”

    I laughed.
    and signed)

    those doctors and their procedures!
    lol

    *any relationship to the future modern word, hipo-cracy is purely divine and thoroughly unintended

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